The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1862, Page 4

+ NEW. YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OF SIGE N. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, TRLMS cash inadeance, Money sent by mail will be at the riah of the gender, None but Bank bilis current in New York tuhem TA® DAILY HERALD, « , ST per anni, HE WEEKLY HEKA 'y Saturday, at wis cents per pean Edition every Wednestay, anmem to any part of Great Britain, Continent, oth to include postage; the he Let, Ldh and 2ist of each month, at six von COM, OF par am nati. PAMILY HERALD, on Wed 1 @t four cents per NEARY CORRESPONDENCE tatuing important 0 0 SPO. so mportn af woods will be ped for, B@rouR Forman RRESPONDENTS ACE Axi¥ Rugussten TO Seat ac. Lerrears anv Pace AGRS Si NO NOTICE taken of anonymous correspondence, We do not weturn rejected communis (ions. 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CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL, 585 Broadway.—Soxas Dancst, BURLESQUES, &C.—KeD Usoun. GAIETIES CONCERT ROOM, 616 Broadway.—Drawixa Room ENTERTAINMENTS, BaLLets, Paxtomimes, Farces, £0, AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, 444 Broadway.—Jzatovs Darscy—RatLe0ap—COLiision—JOLLY MILLERS. CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45 Bowery. ~ BURLESQUES, Songs, Daxces, pepsi rgs 4 Lost. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 — Open daily trom 10 AM. ul9 PM ene NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, LI 4, 616 Broad: 7. —BURLES: foxes, Daxcas, £6. phir, — New York, Sunday, April 13, 1862. THE SITUATION. The army of General McClellan in front of York- town is still prevented from making any decisive movements in consequence of the bad condition of the roads, but at the same time the advance keeps up a continasl harassing fire upon the rebel batte- ties, the Berdan sharpshooters doing such excel- lent service in this regard as to evoke a special order of thanks from General McClellan. It has been ascertained that the rebels have received large reinforcements during the past two days, and that they are rapidly strengthening their works. From information received by scouts, it appears that the rebels are abandoning their position ou the banks of the Rappahannock, and are falling back on Gordonsville and Richmond. The particulars which we give to-day of the movements of the Merrimac on Friday are exceed- ingly interesting, showing the daring of the rebel flotilla in tempting cur vessels into a fight which, for good reasons no doubt, was declined. The rebel vessela aucceeded in taking three small craft—one loaded with hay, another with sutlers’ stores, and the other empty—without any opposi- tion. After making a show of their strength, and vainly endcavoring to induce our naval force to attack them, the rebel squadron retired, as we have previously stated. . Our iron-clad boats—the Monitor, Naugatuck and Octorara—fired several shots at the enemy, but did no damage, being out of range. The Merrimac was still to be seen last evening lying quietly off Sewall’s Point, under the protection of the rebel batteries. Our troops have pushed as far south as Hunts- ville, Alabama, under Goneral Mitchell. They took possession of that place without mnch resist ance, and captured two hundred prisoners, fifteen locomotives and a large amount of roliing stock. Huntsville is an important point, as our map and description of the place to-day will show, being situated on the main trunk line of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which connects Rich- mond with Memphis aud the other cities of the Southwest. Our possession of Huntsville cuts off ail connection between the Southern Atlantic States and the West. On the other side our army bas taken possession of Pass Christian, in Mississippi, only fifty miles from New Orleans and thirty miles from Ship Island, from which latter point, no doubt, the ad- vance was made. Thus the rebels in the extreme South are being rapidly enclosed in the embraces of the Northern anaconda. The rebel accounts of the late battle at Pittsburg Landing, including the official of General Beaure- gard, represent that affair as a brilliant victory for their side; but it happens, unfortanately for the truth “of these statements, that all their reports refer to the fight of Sunday, in which they un- doubtediy lad the advantage, being nearly two to one against General Grant's army on that day. Not a word, Lowever, is said in the rebel accounts Of the Monday's battle, in which the tables were turned, and our army, supported by its veinforce- ments, drove the enemy from the fleld. Peaure- gard’e report announces the death of General Albert Sydney Johnston. MISCELLANEOUS NEWs. In the Senate of our State Legislature yoster- day, several bills were passed; but none of them | ‘wore of any gencral importance. The Assembly's ameddments to the bill to suppress the coneoy ealoons were concurred in. The bill forty. volment and reorganization of the State ‘was considered in Committee of the Whoo wa ordered toe third reading. Anunfavorabl: ‘was made from the committee on the bill (or w the Firemen’s Savings instit son this city, Inthe Assembly, the Concert Saloon Dill was amended and passed; ond, a8 the amend ments wore immediately after concurred in by the Senate, the bill now only needs the Hxecutive vig- Rature to be alaw. The Assembly sleo presed the bills to amend the Excise law and to provide | for the paymont of expenses iacurred ty indivi- duals in organizing and equipping volunteers for the war. Tho Dill increasing the license fees peddlcrs and hawkers was ordered to a third ing. The Congressional Apportioumen: ||| wes taken from the table and referred to the Cort to. oF (HAT HOfe. "A motion to take ap tho Sew 1 Prooklyn Pagsenger aad Baggage Ba: N wee lost, ; TT we to ed NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1862. dations of President Lincoln and Mayor Opdyke, | Clellan’s capture of Yorktown. By that time, this day will be sigualiaed im al! the churches of | as we bave intimated, their back door of escape this city by services of thaaksgiving for the name | to the Southwest, down through Bast Tennessee: rons victories recently achieved over the rebels | will he closed, and they will be compelled to bythe Union army. In some paasccage te be en move directly southward, through North and derstand, the occasion will be further taken South Carolina; and even by this route they vantage of by making collections for the benefit of mae sad atlas = t iers, and the families of such as have y meet with some very serious obstructions. remnant ont The interior portions of tho cotton States, fallen on the bloody field of battle. it is an ex- io ¢ ample worthy of gencral imitation, and we feel | back from the malaria of the low, swampy sea- sure that the bare aunouncement of the subject | Coast section, are elevated and remarkably sa- in all the churches to-day would meet with a libe- | lubrious. The original plans of General Me- ral response from the various congregations. Clellan embraced this nice distinction between The bookseller’s trade sale was continued until } a summer campaign for Northern troops on the late last night, and although a number of the buy- | sickly Southern seaboard and the healthy Coa En ee ie aan | Southern interior. Hence we ind that atl the with their fami 5 e eat me keep up the vigor of the bids. The invoice of Dick pany prevent Lan abagion a Sud-eadiealing & Pitagerald wont off very finely, and Charles Ta- | *Fmiles, fleets and flotillas are directed, on both bee's list of ambrotype copies of fine engravings flanks, to push the rebels back into the interior met with a deserved success, both as regards | Of the cotton States before the sickly season of prices and numbers. The demands for the photo- | the Southern coast comes on. That this will be graphic albums were very spirited, the worse | done can hardly now be doubted; but, with this samples fetching good prices, aud those of Mc- | great work accomplished, we think there wil! xulane Je Pasa nar ns pegs the ie be no protracted rebel guerilla war in the in. est kind offered yer 'y, sold at prices rating | torior of the cotton States, but a general stam- higher than any omer Of the same class of goods. pede of the rebel leaders for Mexico, and a Their style of binding, doubtless, bad somewhat eneral dissolution of th bel . to do with this suecess; for while other works of | 8°7°T —s it wa oe yuhamyaisel this kind generally fall to pieces after a few day's | Taxation of NewspapersInfluence of wear, the new “guard backs” of these albums | Cheap Journalism on Political Morals. prevent any chance of such amishap. Thesta-/ The death of the Londo Morning Chronicle, tionery lists did not come off so early as expected. | after nearly a century of exiatence, is a fact of In another column will be found the decision of | pveat political significance. Takeu in ¢con- Judge McCunn upon the constitutionality of the | setion with the changes impending | over Sunday Liquor law, which will repay perusal. sia pronarcg Ireland and Matthews, who were arreated | °UY OWA newspaper press, ity importance should not be lost sight of. by Captain Petty for selling liquor on Sunday with r closed doors, were discharged, the District Attor- For thirty years the press of Fngiand had, ney virtually coinciding with the views expressed | nder the influence of moderate and discrimi_ by the City Judge. His Honor had the decision on | nating taxes imposed both upon circulation aud advertisements, grown into a consequence the motion to quash the indictment against James B. Taylor prepared; but the Recorder having | and power which justly obtainod for it the title LU vepresenied 30 faith- adjourned the Court till Monday, he could not | of «The Fourth Estate.” fully the opinions of the educated classes that deliver it. Ha ay. ale a pctipes oe ee no minister dare disregard ite mauilostations tract, waa called on again, before Judge Barnard, whea exercised with anything like unanimity. It yesterday, but postponed until Saturday next at | ™4e or unmade cabinets, and, to a greater ov ten o'clock. Mr. Edwin James made some re- | lesser degree, dictaied the policy of each marks, en passant, respecting the American and | successive administration. With the exception Engiish press. of a few weekly journals, circulating among the The trials of several parties for being engaged | working classés, it was gonorally to be found in the slave trade were set down for dilferent days, } the advocate of conservative or rationally pro. OO es lee eek sae gressive measures. Then came the abolition of edof inthe Supreme Court of Melbourne, Austra- wee — Scag. a5 Che See enen ny Tia, on the 23d of December. This was the first ai- | ledge’—8 term, like many other party shibbo- yorce cause ever heard in the colony. ‘The deci- leths, intended merely to dupe the multitude. sion was in favor of the marriage, and against the far aa It regarded the newspaper pross it certainly had no just application; for, under a application of the husband for it dissolution. As far ag the returns have been received the vote | judicious system of taxation, the English press in Western Virginia stands as cag had not onty honestly fulfilled its mission, but ssoeih er. Against. | prospered to a degree unexaimpled in the his- a Ly ene os van & | tory of that particular department of literature. According to the City Inspector's report there | The duty upon paper removed, its immediate were 455 deaths in the city daring the past week— | effect was to multiply to an enormous extent an increase of 49 as compared with the mortality of | the number of cheap jouraals, which, springing the weck previous, and 21 more thaa occurred | up like fungi, exercised a similarly uawhole- daring the corresponding week last year. The re- | some and poisonous influence. Requiring but capitulation table gives 3 deaths of sloohaiams, 2 comparatively little capital for their establish- of diseases of the bones, joints, &e.; 102 of the mont, the English penny dailies soon acquired brain and nerves, L of the generative organs, 14 = +4 i of the heart and blood vessels, 148 of the lungs, i circulation which affected tho advertising throat, &¢.; 3 of old age, 58 of diseases of the skin | business of their older rivals, and compelled and eruptive fevers, 4 premature births, 61 of dis- | them to reduce an expenditure that had beon cases of the stomach, howels and other digestive | employed in securing the highest order of organs: 54 of unceriafa seat and general fevers, 9 | talent and personal character for their manage- of diseases of the urinary organs, 13 from violent | ment. The consequences were soon apparent. causes, and 3 unknown. There were 315 natives | Men of inferior capacity and principles: got of the United States, 7 of England, 91 of Ireland, | old of the old established journals; the intel- ligent class of readers upon whom they had 2 of Scotland, 33 of Germany, and the balaace of wearer hitherto relied became dissatisfied with them: ‘The stock market was inactive yesterday, 4 as tho si z first board stocks wero a fraction lower. At tho second | and to maintain their circulation they board there was a moderate rally. Money was easior, |} had to bid for popularity among the being freely offered a! perceat. Exchange ciosel at gold LOLX a 7%. The bullion export of the 70,477. The cotton market was stealy yesterday. Suies of 665 bales, chiely to spinners, closing on the basis of? Qissc. @ 8c. for middling uplands. The four market was heavy, under the influence of the foreiga news, and ‘eli off Sc. per bbl, especially for com- mon sod a a grades of State aud Westora, while gales were moderate. Wheat was inactive and sales small, while prices were without change of momeat Coro was heavy and lower, with sales of Westera im cod, masses by rushing into extremes that they had hitherto carefully avoided. Hence the violent and disgraceful part taken by such journals as the London Times, Post and Ierald on the American question, and the error into which we ourselves fell in assuming that these papers continued, as of old, to represent the views of the government or of the intelligent and educated -portion of the English people. The fact was that they bral — aad = : AL 59c. a Cle. bipiet was | were cither trying to curry favor with the work- sy 5 ht, inchiding cew mess at $1287, 4 | ; vi i wei ri $13, and new eal $10 26.8 $10 37%. Bacon and lata ing classes, whose interests were 40 seriously affefied by the blockade, or had been bought up by Southern gold. The effect of this prosti- tution of journals, which had hitherto mai tained an honorable and independent position, ™ a became at once evident. The two countries The “Old Flag” Again in Alabama= | Were nearly precipitated into a war with each Huntsville Occupied. other, and when the concessions of our govern- Genoral Mitchell’s division, which our read- | mont in the Trené affair led to an ami- ers will remember was the advanced column of | cable adjustment of the difficulty, and the army of Genera! Buell in the occupation of | afforded time for a calm consideration Bowling Green, Keutucky, bas crossed the | of all the facts, the conduct of (hese papers State of Tennessee, and invaded the “sacred | led to a violent reaction in public opinion, the soil” of Alabama, and has thereon established | effect of which has been to kill off the Morning itself for the present, in the once flourishing | Chronicle, which will soon be followed by the town of Huntsville. Fleratd and Post, and in al! probability by the This piace, as indicated on the map, is on the | Times, too, unleas it speedily cha: ges its tactics. Chattanooga and Memphis Railrvad, and about | In trying to outvie the penny papers in radi- eighty miles west of Chattanooga, one hundred | calism and coarseness, these journals have and twenty miles east of Corinth, Mississippi, | disgusted the highly cultivated class of read- the latest stronghold of Beauregard, while | ers upon whom they have hitherto relied, and some twenty-five miles to the southwest from | the latter are consequently now almost without Huntsville by rail is the railway junction at { any organ. When the conservative sentiment Decatur, on th Tennessee river, where it was | of the country is left thus unrepresented the supposed General A. Sidney Johnston had in- | consequences must be evident to every one. trenched himself for a fight. The object of | To vivlence of tone and an aggressive spirit on General Mitchell, therefore, in striking this | the part of the press will succeed party divi- railroad east of Decatur could not have been to | sions and conflicts of all kinds and in their cut off Johnston from a junction with Beaure- | wake will inevitably follow revolution and gard; for if this bad been his purpose General | anarchy. Mitchell would have moved in between Corinth Such has been also the experience of the con- and Decatur. We presume that he has his eye | tinental nations wherever a cheap press upon the important railway junction at Chatta- | bes been allowed to multiply its issues nooga, snd the «till more important junction a | uncontrolled by a government censorship little further vast, at Cleveland, which com- | Who can doubt that, if taxation alone had been mands the great railroad leading up through | relied upon to check the radicalism incident to East Tennessee into Virginia, and thence to | low priced journals, France would have ex- Richmond. hibited more stability in ber institutions? Any fa this view of General Mitchell's occupation | interference by authority with the free expres- of Huntsville, the complete liberetion of East | sion of opinion must always bayve a tendency Tonnessee and the shv’ting of the back door in | to irritate and inflame ‘he popular passions. he Southwest against che revel government and | If governments would so frame their measures she rebel army at Richmond are very broadly } that the press could only be conducted by suggested. Aa it is, even at Huntsville our | men of capital as well as education, they would army ot cecupation cuts off the railway con- | arrive at their objects without exposing them- rection between Memphis and Corinth in the | selves to the odium of enforcing sestrictive West, and ail the rebel States from Georgia to | laws against the right of free discussion. Virginia in (he Bast, and leaves Beauregard on in this country we are unkappily exemplify- “wore iv good reqnest, and prices frm. Sugars were stoady and in guodt request, with sales of about 1,300 hhds. at full prices. Coiea was quiet aud prices unchanged. Freigbis were be ai engagements light, at un- Changed rates wc site and Gen. Jo. Johuston on the other | ing, by our present misfortunes, the ‘extreme, each to «bift for himself. The battle | evils resulting from cheap newspapers: at Piltshurg Landing, however, my change the | During the thirty years that England originel design: of General Mitchell's advance, | was becoming more united and powerful, and move bim weeiward, in order to wider the intluence of a moderately taxed ny the final ws againal Reanre uf and admirhbly conducted press, we have Oorinth. hoon steadily drifting into revolution, A ays- In any eye bels row soon bo | tem of government more perfect than any that | cleared awa "0 ‘he northern borders of | the wisdom of man had ever before succeeded Arkanans, Missit#invi. Alaboma wut Georgia, | in devising has been suspended and nearly | by our advancing forces on ¢ broken up by the demagogism engendered by nd aud water | in that «etion, while slous ‘he Atlantic sea- | « low priced aid irresponsible press. It is for board and the Guif our naval Xpedit) ‘ns have | Congress to take oare that this curse does not nearly completed their preparations for « gene. | stick to us, In legistating upon the new tax ‘ val moving back of the rebels into tho interior | Vill att sf the cotton States. Their stampede from Vir al as ¥ | giaka will bogla valve Lope wits Gemeral dhg- | weal t nshould be directed to the politi- \o the fiscal considerations which }quoqtion, The publig, morals, a4 well as the public necessities, will be subserved by making the taxation upon newspapers such as will guarantee their being conducted by persons who have some stake in the community, Tus Mexemac ano Rese Fuser Ovr AGaiy w Hamproy Roaps—Tuem Aupaciry anv Lirupexce.—By the news which we pub- lish this morning from Vortress Monroe, it ap- pears that the Merrimac, accompanied by the Yorktowa aud Jamestown—the latter arimed with an iron prow, protruding six feet beyond the water line—came out from Craney Island on Vriday morning, at seven o’clock, accom. panied by fow other gunboats—two of them probably the Teazer and Raleigh—and five tugs, making in all twelve vessels, and ad- vanced into Hampton Roads, opposite New- port’s News. Afler notifying the Freach and English war vessels to move out of danger, the Commodore of the fleet sent the Jamestown to capture two brigs and a schooner anchored near the shore between Newport’s News and Fortress Monroe, and in the service of the federal government. -The three prizes were taken off under the rebel flag in less than half aa hour, and conveyed to Craney Island—one of them with the Union flag at half-mast—no pleasant sight for American eyes. Meantime, the other Union sloops, schooners and brigs in the Roads retreated under the shelter of For- tress Monvoe, and “in the course of an hour the forests of masts between the fortress and Sew- all's Point disappeared, and broad, open expanse of water bore on™ face only the rebel fleet and one English and two Freach men-of-wa: This was no sueprise; for the Merrimac and her consorts had steam up for several days at Craney tsiand, and were expected oul as 3002 as the weather became fine. On the first ap. pearance of the Merrimac, too, the Minnesota fired wn alarm gun. Yet the rebel floet were permitted to carry off three yeasels in the ser- vice of the government without an attempt at Tesistance. And not -only so, but at four o’clock in’ the afternoon the Merrimac fired three shots in the direction of Hampton creek, as a challenge to our fleet to come out and fight. The Monitor, meantime, continued at her usual anchorage, and as for the Vanderbilt and the rest who were to run the Merrimac down, we have no account of their presence. Where were they? It is no wonder that “the bold impudence of the mancu- vres of the rebel fleet, contrasted with the ap. parent apathy of our fleet, excited surprise and indignation” among the spectators. What has the Navy Department been doing ever since the late battle? Why was not the Merrimac cut out of Norfolk or sunk in its waters, just after she was disabled by the Monitor, instead of waiting till she was repaired and received two new powerful guns, carrying balls of three hundred and sixty pounds weight, with punch-like poiuts, to penetrate even iron—and waiting, moreover, till one of her consortshad her boiler repaired and another had an iron prow affixed ? What corresponding preparation hasbeen made to meet the rebel fleet thus prepared? That nothing adequate has been done appears evi- dent from the fact that the Confederate vessels came out to offer battle, and it was de- clined, except under the cannon of the Kip Raps and Fortress Monroe. This isnot as it ought to be, and the Nuvy Department and Congress owe «a beavy debt of responsibility to the country for palpable neglect, whose results cannot fail to be injurious to the prestige of the United States Navy among the marilime nations of the world. There is good reason to fear that the Merrimac will play an important part inthe coming battle on the peninsula, extending from Yorktown, on the York river, to Warwick, on the James river, unless her destruction is pre- viously accomplished. Pusu Ixcaeputiry Asovr War News—Tan Cavse ov Ir.—For some time the public wind has exhibited great incredulity about the re- ports which appear ia the newspapers from the battle field. This was the case about the vic- tory won by our troops at Pittsburg, on the ‘Tennessee, on Monday last. More than half of those who read the accounts did not believe them. This incredulity was not manifested i}; recently. It has avisen altogether out of the censorshi Had the newspaper proprictors been lefi to themselves they would have pub. lished as truthful accounts of battles as it was possible for them. I[t is always their int to tell the truth, It is on this chavacter for veracity that their success depends. But since the ceasorship of the press under the War De- partment, journalists are no longer responsi: for the war news, and consequently the publi have in @ great measure lost confidence in ii, There ought not to be any dowbt that « viciorr was won by the Union arms on Monday; but there was 80 much mystery thrown around it by suppression of truth on one side, nud exag geration and invention on the other, that the public mind was confused and bewildered, and knew not what to believe. One account said there was a disorderly rout of the rebels on Monday, and tha! they lost | 7 forty guns; another, that they lost no guns, but carried off the thirty-six they captured, and retired in good order when the reinforcement of Buoll appeared to be too numerous to con- tend against. The variance in the numbers killed and wounded and prisoners on either side is very great. In the beginning the rebels were said to have lost 35,000, which is, to say the least, a great exaggeration Then they were pursued to Corinth and it was rumored that Corinth was taken, ail of which is now known to be untrue, The fact appears to ber that in Sunday's battle the Union troops were severely defeated and only saved from utter destruction by the gunboats. On Monday, by the reinforcements they retrieved their for- tunes and recovered the ground they had lost, punishing the enemy withheavy blows. But there ought to be an official report. The ab- senco of official reports confirms the doubts of the skeptical. Let the truth be published at once, whatever itis. It will be the best in the end. Leave the press free aud untrammotied, and the truth will be sure to come out. Tad the facts Leen allowed to be published in the morning papers on the day after the battle of Buil ran, instend of foolishly announcing a victory, the efleet of the truth, which could not be kept back in the afternoon, would not have been helf so disns- trous as itwas. When there i: any attempt at concealment, or any mystery made about bat- | tlos, the imagination will be sure to paint mat- | ters in the darkest colors. Mr. Srantoy’s Bor.erin Avour Tin Anny Svurgeons.—-Wo fear the Seoretary of War's Hulletin about the Assistant Army Surgeons. Hewitt and Stipp, will make our military? | 9 ha Gold fogs very wacomtortayle “Megiigent and inhuman,” why were they ap- pointed? We suspect that many men, by po- litical influence, have been appointed surgeons in the army who are neither qualified by the Poseession of humanity nor professional know- ledge. The sooner they are swept away the better. They may be more fate! to our wound- ed troops than the cannon and musketry of the enemy have been, If (ue two surgeons thug reprimanded by a war bulletin are “enemies of their country and of the human race,” they ought to be arrested, tried by court martial and bung, instead of being merely “suspended from duty and ordered to report themselves.” NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WAR GAZETTE. OFFICIAL, PASSES 10 EDITORS, CORRESPONDENTS AND RE- PORTERS. ‘War Darartskst, April 12, 1862, Colonel Anson Stager is hereby authorized to grant passes to the editors, correspondents ana reporters of owspapers to enter the lines of the United States Army, upon receiving satisfactory proof that the porsen apply- ing for such pass is loyal, and his written parole not to Publish any information in regard to military operations that would give aid or comfort to the ene y; persons hold- lng such passes to bo subject to such rules and regula- tions as the General Commanding may progoribe. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secratary of War. INPORTANT TO ARMY SUTLERS, ‘The following has been received by the Military Gover nor of tho District of Columbia:— Was Darartuent. Gexunat—It is tho request of General McClellan that LO permits be given for the pregent to ship sutior’s stores: to places occupied by bis army. You wiil please act ac- cordingly avd stop all shipments. Yours, truly, EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. Brigadier General Wanaworta, GENERAL NEWS. Wasinyoroy, Aprii 12, 1862. NOTICE TO VESS#L9 TRADING TO OLD POINT. ‘The following letter, addressed to Flag Officer Golds- borough, was issued from tho Navy Department on the 6th instant:— 4 Sn—It is not unlikely that some vessels may make their appearance at Old Point, for tho purpose of trading with the army and naval forces, withont authority to do 0. None should be allowed without the permission of the Treasury, War or Navy departments; and, you discover any that have not such permission, you will scize them , and send them into port for adjudication, I am, haste ** your obedient servant, . GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. THE NATIONAL TAX BILL, ‘The Tax bill has been found defective in very many par. ticulars, and will require much amendment in the Senate, if it should not be superseded there by the substitution of an entirely new bill. It is estimated that, under the pro- visions of tho bill as it passed the Honse, only about fifty thousand dollars of the tax can be collected in the Terii- tory of Colorado. It ig atated that there is not inthe Torritory a single foot“bf real estate owned by individuals upon which the tax can be levied. Nor will anything be realized from the income tax in any of the Territories, most of which are in @ similar condition to that of Colo- rado. In matoring the Tax bill, the cost, convenience and foasibility of collecting the revenue appears to have almost entiroly oscaped attention. ‘he tax on spirituous liquors is cited as an instance of this oversight. Instead of laying the whole tax upon crnde liquors, as distilled, a light tax is laid upon them, and is increased upon the mixtures of which they are the base. It is shown that it will be noxt to impossible to collect tho taxes on these mixtures, and that this great source of revenne will be thus rendered unproductive to the government. The experience of the English government in collecting such taxes bas taught them to lay the whole tax upon the ori- ginal manufacture, and not attempt to follow the various devices of trade for the revenve. 1t is represented that not one gallon in ten thousand of raw whiskey iS used in that state, but nearly all 1s subjected to some process to fit it for use. A tax, equaleven to that im- posed by Great Britain—two dollars and Ofty conts per gallon—might without difficulty be collected from tho distillers, but after it leaves thoir hands the collection of tho subsequent taxes would roquirc an innumerable army Kcisemen. EVPECT OF THE PASSAGE OF THE EMANCIPATION BILL. ‘The announcement to-day of the passage of the Ewan- cipation billgfor the District has created much excite- ment, Ithas produced irreparable domestic confusion, breaking up, ia many instances, family relations that had sibsisted undisturbed for years, and severing associations that were endeared by affections that can be appreciated ouly by those who have reared their own servants. While many slave owners willingly acquiesce tu this measure ots with grave objections from the working classes, and in many iustances from the negroes themselves, who regard this movement as only preliminary to their forci- ble removal from the country, and do not appreciate the hoon of freedom which debars them from entering any, Stato of the Union except Povnsylvania, New York and the New England States. To those among tbem who have yfamily assoviations in Maryland, Vir- gin, or Kentucky, the state of servitude was profera- bic to the freedom which shuts them out from not only slayegStates but from most of the free States of the Union The bill as it has passed opens the way for innumera vie frands. There is no doubt, if the bill should become a law, hundreds of negroes, heretofore free, will be rop- roseute! as slaves for the purpose of obtaining the com- pensation allowed. The impression has been greatly strengthoned to-day that the failure to provide an oppor- tauity for a trial by jury of the value of the negroes thus liberated will prove fatal to the bill. This opinion is bow oxpressed by several who voted against Mr, Train’s amendment, mnd it is stated that it is also entertained by the Attorney General. MERTING OF (HE LOYALISTS OF FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA. The loyal residents of Fairfax county held another UChion meeting to-dey, chiefly with the view of porfect- ing a new organization styled the Union Club, Tho mem vers are pledged to report to the authorities every ible concerning the enemy. Se from the adjoining counties are inierestod in tho organization, and are makiog avrangements for establishing similar societies elsewhere The Union Home Guard, of Fairfax, is daily increasing in strength, and wil! shortly be in readiness for effective service. Mr. Brooks, Secretary of the Union Club has been appointed to procure arms from the War Hopartment for the use of the new corps. A NUISANCE ABATED. ‘The city 18 being fast cleared of the bogus army officers who have infested the hoteie and promenades of Wash- ington for some time past. Counterfeit colonels, majors and line officers by scores have been arrested, confined in the central grardhouse, and released shorn of their fearbers. The uniform of these men is generally a cloak for rascality. ARREST OF AN XPRESS DRIVER. Charies Grif n, an expross driver, has been arrested and confined in tho contral” guard-house, charged with forging acheck for twenty-five dollars in the name of Captain Stecie, affixed tow falee account for services, ‘The check was passed on Captain Dana, Griffin baa been turned over to the civil authorities. THY PROVOST MARSHAL'S PATROL. ‘the Provost Marshal has adopted a new oxi Of vatvolling the streets of the city, It consists in having the guard of cavalry and infantry accompany each other on their tour, and thas be able to render vid to vac another in case any diMculty occurs in making arrests veral gentiemen THE NAVY, ‘The following orders and appointments hare besa made at the Navy Dopartinent:— Commander James HT. Strong, detached from the Mo. hawk, and ordered to thecommand of United States steamer Fing. Acting Mastor William T, Randall, oréever! to cepors to the Navy Yard, Boston. Robert G@. Richards, of New York, appointed Master'# rh FAVORABLE REPORTS PROM BXOLAND. Mr. Cyrus W. £i0ld arrived Lore this. morning «ireoy from Londot, aud reports that the feeling in England ond Prange in favor of this coutrtry ts daily increaaang, Tt i } oul that Mr dield Droughtwith bin from Karepe pro). ara rom inflagutial ony ——w» livered in Now York, and payable entirely i bouds of, our government. SPECIAL MESSENGER TO ‘Tho President has appointed Mr. Plumb, fot,merty af attache of the Moxican embassy, @ epecial of despatches to that country. Mr. Plumb lea cad earliest opportunity, taking with him the prow Jected between this government and that of Mexico, Th@ treaty is elegantly engrossed and translated, is bound im biue velvet, on which are the American arms attached with silver cord and tassels, pending from which is the great seal of the United States, in a box of pure silvers ‘The whole ts contained in a Turkey morocco case, claspog with silver and lined with blue velvet, THE NEW TREATY WITH MEXICO, 4 A clause in the now treaty with Mexico provides that criminals may be remanded by the State authorities of any State of either republic, without reference to thé geueral government. This will save much circumlocud tion in the extradition of criminals. te ORDER RESPECTING PRISONERS OF WAR, — By ordors recently issued, it is the duty of @ conte manding General in the field, or of department, taf make arrangements for the safe keeping and reasonabid comfort of his prisoners. He will give no order exchang/ ing prigonors or releasing them, except under inatrucy tions from the War Department. But, in emorgencie@ admitting of no delay, the General will act upon his owt authority, and give any order relative to bis prisonerg® the public interest may require, promptly reporting hig Proceedings to tho War Department through the Adjutant Goneral. A general depot for prisoners will be doo signated by the Secretary of War, to be under tho comt¥ mand of the Commissary Genoral of prisoners, but leaving: it discretionary with Generals commanding departmeateg or in the fleld, to gend their prisoners thithor. THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE ARMY. = «- From statistics propared by the Sanitary Commigsiogy it appears that the sickness of the army, classified by districts, was in the following relative proportions;—la August and September—Western States, ninety-eight; Eastern States, seventy-eight; Middlo States, fifty-fivey In October and Novembor—Western States, one hundred and eight; Eastern States, sevonty-four; Middle Stateo,’ fifty-six. In December and January—Western Statery one hundred and seven; Eastern States, eighty-threes Middle States, sixty, The statistics of the Commisai show that the Western States invariably show the larges@ sick list proportionately, and the Middle States th@ smailest. The Commission is preparing other vital stay’ tistics which will be of great value. 4 REBEL SHOT, Aman was shot by @ sentry guarding the Orange andl Alexandria Railroad, a short distance beyond isriatol Station, last Wednesday night, while in the act of tearing up tho rails, Tho rebel had withdrawn. throd’ spikes and was prying off the rail with an iron bag when the guard fired upon him, killing him instantly. NEWS FROM THE RAPPAHANNOCK.’ ‘Wasuixctow, April 12, 1861. Reliable scouts report that the rebels have almost tirely abandoned their position upon the goutlf bank of the Rappabannock, and haye fallen. back’ to the immediate vicinity of Gordonsville and Richmond. It is believed that tho greater portions Of the rebel army of the Potomac has gone to the re%, lief of Norfolk and Yorktown, at which Places’ thd enemy have doubtless concentrated their a Tho utter destruction of rails ana conlial aided Codar Run greatly retards our movements upon the tin® of the Gordonsville Railroad, and renders an immous@ Outlay of capital and labor necessary before any blow cam be inflicted upon tho enemy by our advance. " IMPORTANT FROM THE QULF. THE CAPTURE OF PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSiSgiPt/ Bavemcons; Aprit12;1862. “{ Adespatch dated Mobile, Sth, says the enemy (the Union torces) sholied Pass Christian yesterday, tandod 2,400 men and twolve four-pound howitzers. Our force’ was 300 men and two howitzers. We (the rebels) msdq’ & narrow escape, SSETCH OF PASS CHRISTIAN.” Pass Christian (pronounced Kris-te-an, with theagce cn the last syllable) is post village of Harrison coun: ty, Mississippi. It is located on a pass of its own mame noar the entrance to St. Louis Bay. It is situated al about one hundred and sixty-five miles tothe soutl< southeast of Jackson. It is fifty miles from New Org loans, thirteen miles from Mississippi City, and twonty: five miles from Biloxi. It is about thirty miles from they eastern portion of Ship Island, and about eighty mileg! from the mouth of Yass-al’Outre of fthe Mississipp@ river. i Harrison county is situated in the most southern pat of the Sti nd borders on the Gulf of Mexico. It an area of about eleven hundred and fifty square miles and is drained by the Bilox! and Wolf rivers. The soi’ ts sandy, and, for the most part, is covered with pin wood. The capital of the county is Mississippi City The last returas of the population gave an aggregate tw this county of nearly five thousand pergons, of whons fifteen hundred were slaves. ‘ Pasa Christian—that is, the waters of that name—!— caused by the impeded part of the Sound in the directiond of Cat Island and the entrance of the bay of St. Louis.’ ‘Those waters do uot admit of vessels drawing more thaw eight feet of water at medium tide. This draught of wa’ ter can be carried through Lake Borgne. Lake Pontehar, train is separated from Lake Borgne by Pine Island, ta ‘he north of which is the entrance called Rigoletts, anf to the south called the Chief Montour. These entrances and outlets afford, on their respective bars, in Lake Borgne, a depth of nine feet at high water, andeight) fect at medium tide. This depth can be carried througty the lake, within a short distance of the shore, to Madi¢ sonvilie, to the mouth of the Manchac, and to the moutis’ of the Bayou St. Jean, which conneets,the city of New Ure leans with the lake. IMPORTANT FROM ARKANSAS. The Rebels Concentrating in Arkansas— Illness of Geneval Sigel, &c. Sr. Lovrs, April 12, 1862. « It is reported that the rebels have withdrawn theic forces from Northwestern Arkansas, and are conceatrat~ ing them at Pocahontas, in the northeastern part of the State. Their force at that point is represented to be tea thousand. The Union forces, under General Steele, ara between Greenville, Missouri, aod tho Arkansas line, pre- pared to meet any movement the rebels may make. ” Major General Sigel has arrived from the southwest, having been compelied to leave his command for a time on account of Lis health. Arrivals from Ironton say that the rebel Genoral Va Dorn is at Pittman’s ferry, on the Currant river, near the Missouri line, with ten or twelve thousand troops, awair_ The Escape of Nashville, Battrmore, April 12, 1362, A letter from Pattonsburg, N.C., tothe Richmond, Whig, says that the Nashville was taken to son by Liewt * More British Steamers to Ran the. jockan A letter from Hamburg, of March 16, saya the Britists, steamer Bahama, of Liverpool, was in port, loading witle guns and ammunition, and to clear for Matamoras, Mex: co. The writer had been on board, and thinks #he i «ntended for a privateer—has a flush deck, very heavil, twid.. ‘The British stoamor before reported lying at Bordeaux? is theSaracen, of 1,500 tons. She remained at Bor~ deaux March 19, loading with brandy, wines, ging and ammunition, intending torun the blockade. She iq loaded by the firm of Desbordewes, American shig brokers. ? of the J ' ‘Tho spearuship Jura, Capt. sailed al pas saree TM, for Liverpool. Coroners’ Inquests. Favat Accrpenr at a Fiee.—James Gould, @ Aative u oston, aged thirty-one years, died yesterday at his rewi« No. 08 Columbia streot, from the eects of inju. donee, o sidentally received on Tuesday last, by boing run ci A ouine No. 26, while on lie way to afire. Do. ‘ated, bad hold of the ropoof the apparat 41 coats ing Cnrough Jackson street, whoa he stimb'o% and, falling wader the wheels, was ran over. Ho wag nok Anember of the Fire Department, but was th tho diabis of aasisting Engin Company No. 26 whenever an, oppor fatty offered, Coconer Colvin held au iaquest apon tha body’ 4 nn HNkNOW A muAN, Hs Foun Drow we.--The bo« posed to bo Benjamin O n , WRE for ad 4 ned at iat), North river, yaatorday ‘The 66,6 red (he ' Jead BOIS @t joaphe